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CrazyBump for Windows

CrazyBump creates displacement, normal and even fake occlusion maps from 2D images. It's free, fast, sports a nice and clean interface, and makes an excellent tool to quickly take your textures to the next level.

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The software developer writes:

You're welcome to use the beta for commercial work. Textures that you create belong to you. They aren't restricted at all.

You can find the software, here. Also, questions can be directed to the user forum.

I was introduced to this by a workmate only this week, and must say that it produces the very best 'automatic' normal maps I've ever seen! We've already added it to our pipeline and I've been showing it off to people all week!
An absolute must have for us puny humans!

If enough Linux users go to the forums and make requests for a Linux version, I'm sure the author will consider it. There's a post in the forum asking about a Mac version and the author mentioned that he would be willing to create a Mac version after getting the Windows version out of beta.

According to the author, CrazyBump will eventually become a commercial app with two editions (Professional and non-Commercial). If the beta version fits your needs however, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to continue using it.
There's a forum thread discussing the issue:http://crazybump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16

re: the strict cut-off date, I expect he'll be switching beta versions then, and wants to make sure the old betas are strictly un-usable, so he won't have people contacting him with out-dated requests and bug reports.

hmm.. if the pricing will be adequate(witch im sure it will) and it will ever have a linux version, then ill definitely find a way to get it, perhaps even several(if there will be per-machine licenses).. 8)''

though i will try the beta trough wine.. :/ and if it works then thats an option too.. :)

That tool works very well!
I am working with MAYA and although MAYA has possibilities to make normal maps, the feature for displacement maps is good.
I hope there will be a noncommercial freeware in the future!

Most of the time, a crash like that is due to an old video driver. Could you guys try updating your video drivers to the latest versions available? I've posted links to the drivers for most cards at http://crazybump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=124

If that doesn't help, please send a message to [email protected]. If you include dxdiag report that might help me find the problem!

Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, froze the version number at 9c a few years ago. Since then, they've released a dozen updates. Each one is called 9c, even though they are different.

CrazyBump uses the August 2007 version of DirectX. But since no version number exists, there's no way to check whether DirectX is up to date!

This is actually Microsoft's official policy - it's why they froze the version numbers in the first place, so every app has no choice but to install Directx. It's maddening, but I don't know what to do about it.

I have updated my Nvidia Driver and installed the last beta release of CrazyBump. I have allowed the installation of the directX component and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, and now CrazyBump works fine.

And you know what ? It is really Crazy !

It is a gread tool ! Being able to create a Normal Map from a photo without having to create a high poly model first is awesome !

I love software like this - unfortunately, I run linux exclusively so I can't try it - I'd love to see something like this integrated directly into blender... I just wanna know how it works now... lol
~epat. :)